Will Amado Syldor-Severino, a senior fellow with Americorps Massachusetts Promise, is holding his three-week-old son, Abi, on a winter day, as he talks about diversity, his work with local teens and painful issues too often left unsaid.
Read articleMoonCloud seasonal cocktails bring warmth home
How about a drink with a kick for a night with frost in the air — a touch of pumpkin, honey spiced with ginger and cloves? At Moon Cloud in Great Barrington, you can pick up a carefully blended bottle to bring home.
Read articleOnly in My Dreams gives the Berkshires in a package
Imagine fresh coffee, or tea and honey, coming to you as a gentle surprise. Oskar Hallig and his husband, Michael Zippel, have evolved Only in My Dreams in the pandemic to offer locally sourced gift boxes and care packages.
Read articleA holiday artist co-op forms in Great Barrington
In a year when Covid has cancelled in-person markets across the region, makers from the Great Barrington Arts Market and their friends are forming a popup holiday co-op.
Read articlePeace and passion: Holy Week in a Latina community
Maria Soria from Ambato in Ecuador, Lucia Quizhpi from Deleg in Ecuador, and Gabriela Cruz from Oaxaca in Mexico, came to Multicultural Bridge in Housatonic to talk about La Semana Santa, Holy Week, in the places where they were born.
Read articleIn Bridge’s Happiness Toolbox, youth celebrate their own stories
On a sunny morning, a group of young people stood in the meadow below an open ridge, reading a poem that Theresa (Miller) Beaudieu, a member of the Stockbridge Munsee Community Band of the Mohicans, wrote and set here in 1997 …
Read articleA gift of story and song: W.E.B. DuBois on his home ground
W.E.B. DuBois traveled the world in his lifetime. He helped to shape ideals of independence in Africa and freedom and democracy in America. And I have begun to get to know him in the Berkshires, where he was born.
Read articleCamp closures affect local businesses in the pandemic
In a normal summer, I would be a counselor at URJ Crane Lake Camp, and right about now, my friends and I would be walking into West Stockbridge on our hour-off for a muffin and iced-tea from No. Six Depot Roastery and Café or a grilled sandwich from the Public […]
Read articleThe Prairie Whale adapts in a Covid world
At the Prairie Whale in Great Barrington, strings of lights are gleaming above the tables on the lawn. Most of the chairs are full on a Friday night, and voices carry over the grass. The diners and the waiters are all wearing masks.
Read articleZaccho Dance Theatre honors W.E.B. DuBois
Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre performs her immersive work Between Me and the Other World, rooted in DuBois’ book, Souls of Black Folk, drawing on it in the 21st century.
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